Word: referes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...August 6, 1923) left undone one thing that it should have done: the settlement of the Iraq-Turkish boundary.* It was understood that Britain (holding a League of Nations mandate for Iraq) and Turkey were to solve the problem between themselves; and, if agreement were impossible, they were to refer their dispute to the League...
...From the noun cretin, meaning idiot or village fool. A cretin is a creature of nightmare, humanity's most loathsome being. The word, even in adjectival form, is seldom used jocularly by people of discrimination, since one is seldom called upon to refer with jocularity to the most abject embodiment of mankind on earth...
...even inclined to believe that any student who has honestly cultivated "the capacity to use facts and see their relations" will find it impossible to forget the facts themselves. Too often this selective process upon which the writer lays such stress is automatic and signifies only careless work. I refer, by way of contrast, to the English university graduate who does not forget and yet does not find his vision stunted. A recent CRIMSON editorial described vividly one such man "who closed his desk at the War office at four and at six was delivering a lecture on aesthetics...
...undergraduate classes mentioned, 1925, 1926, refer only to those members of the classes who were at the University for two year's but are no longer here. Students at the University now are not affected by the draw...
...went on to refer to Mr. Dawes' "sulphurated hydrogen bank record," to his "secret purpose of destroying the constitutional rights of labor," to his "sinister designs." He said that Mr. Dawes was "an insult to the whole laboring world," "the emphatic representative of the profiteering class." He added that Mr. Dawes' "advertised financial ability is only a bluff" and that his "most dangerous and offensive act in this campaign is his insult to the cooperative movement in agriculture." He ended...